This workshop is especially valuable to seniors, senior caregivers, senior families and medical office staff. Bring your lunch and Livingston Catholic Charities will provide beverage, desert, and useful information.  

• Suicide amongst seniors has increased by more than 30% according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
• Suicide is more prevalent amongst men.
• Seniors 85 and over are at the highest risk of suicide.
• These numbers are often underreported due to “silent” suicides.

Please
RSVP to Beth at 517-545-5944 or https://lccc-june-lunch-and-learn.eventbrite.com

Bob Huston, a photographer who is very passionate about the City of Detroit, has been capturing images of the city’s historic and forgotten structures for nearly 10 years. These images have become a project called Detroit Unseen, which helps to capture and document Detroit’s changes within a positive context.

Join us at the Brighton District Library for a presentation of Detroit Unseen from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 26; registration began June 12.

Huston started to take photos of Detroit around 2008. He was interested in documenting Detroit and the changes taking place and watched the beautiful buildings become abandoned and destroyed. There was no other city around that had the amount of abandonment that Detroit had, most interestingly a “graveyard” of skyscrapers. Huston’s goal became to document the buildings before they were demolished or ruined and to look at the buildings as beautiful, unique pieces of history, art, and craftsmanship.

Huston’s presentation will highlight his 10 years of exploring and photographing Detroit’s historic structures, the history of each building, how Detroit became a “symbol” of abandonment and ruin, and how Detroit has managed to be on the forefront of saving many of these architectural gems from extinction.

“Despite sometimes being saddened by a lost building or a loss of history, I enjoy documenting the changes,” Huston said. “My hope is that in the coming years as city planners, investors, and speculators make way for progress, Detroit can hold onto its rich culture and iconic history.

“The Flag of Detroit contains the two Latin slogans: ‘Speramus Meliora’ and ‘Resurget Cineribus,’ meaning ‘We hope for better things’ and ‘It will rise from the ashes’” The prophetic phrases originally created in reference to the 1805 fire, ring true more now than ever. I take these slogans to heart as I go out and explore our great city.”

Detroit Unseen is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Brighton District Library. The Brighton District Library is located at 100 Library Drive, Brighton.

Co-authors Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen visit Cromaine to answer questions and talk about what it takes to co-author a book. The Lake Michigan Mermaid offers a tender tale of friendship, redemption and the life-giving power of water. Books for sale and signing. Visit funded by the Library of Michigan Foundation. Register at www.cromaine.org or call 810-632-5200. Read more here. 

Back by popular demand, the Howell Opera House is pleased to announce the return of hometown comedic legend Heywood Banks!

Heywood Banks is simply one-of-a-kind, almost impossible to describe, with a style his very own. Equal
parts genius and buffoon, this songwriter-comic-singer-poet-musician has become a cult hero and a pop icon, with a show that appeals to college students, stoners, businessmen, yuppies, rednecks, punks, kids, and/or your grandmother. He intersperses his humorous observations of life with twisted, inventive, bizarre
songs, sung and played in a variety of styles – from folk, to country, to rock, to pop, and way beyond. You have to be pretty smart to get Heywood at his deepest level (he demands a high level of pop culture literacy), but you can
also enjoy him just for his vocal style impersonations, expert musicianship and just plain silliness.

Doors will open at 6:45 pm; performance begins at 7:30 pm. There will be a cash bar with light concessions
available for purchase.

General admission is $25 and can be purchased in advance by calling the Howell Opera House office at 517-540-0065 or online at www.howelloperahouse.com. If any spots remain, they will be sold
at the door on a first-come, first-serve basis.

With its mini-festival atmosphere, the popular Howell’s Sunday Farmers’ Market is open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday May 6 through Oct. 28 in the heart of downtown Howell.

The market showcases nearly 100 local growers, agricultural producers, artisans and crafts-people.

The market will be relocated a bit this year as the City of Howell will be reconstructing State Street for most of the season. The city has offered to extend the market farther down Clinton Street, and Livingston County has offered use of the Annex parking lot which is on the opposite side of the courthouse, giving the market some Grand River Avenue frontage.